Can I get any help for php mime email parser/decoder like https://code.google.com/p/php-mime-mail-parser/ which does not involve any installations. I even tried Zend and decoder from phpclasses.org, but it did not help. I am unable to find how to give the input to program and take the output from as there is no tutorial for this
My aim: I need to convert mime mails from the input stream to readable text
Please help
Try this library, I have used in many application but make sure that you should have mail parser extension installed in your server.
http://codepad.org/zgUEf8lY
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The company I work for provides bulk-mailing functionality to our clients [double opt-in, not spam, I promise] and we get a figurative ton of reports back via Feedback Loops from AOL, Comcast, Yahoo, etc. These are generally from people that signed up, don't want it anymore, have been conditioned to not click 'Unsubscribe' links, [because "that's how the spammers get you"] and simply mark all the messages as spam.
Now, these FBL emails follow a specific format where the message is multipart, there are one or two text parts, and then the original message is attached, usually with all recipient information stripped out. This attached email is also multipart and contains the unsubscribe link, but the section in the attached email the link occurs in is quoted-printable encoded and the link is longer than what quoted-printable allows for in a line, so it get munged. Occasionally the section seems to get base64-encoded, I think it happens if the client is using a fancy language like chinese/japanese/etc.
What I need is a mime/multipart data parser that can give me these parts. PHP has oh so helpfully not implemented any form of multipart parser that I can find outside of what's internal to either their horrid IMAP functions, or internal to PHP itself which processes multipart form data.
Does anyone know of something I can use for this short of having to write my own? I had found one script, but it relies on old PECL functionality that relies on a custom-compilation of PHP which is not an option for this server.
TL;DR: PHP's imap_* functions will parse the parts of the message received from the server, but I need to parse the parts of an email attached to the email downloaded from the server.
This guy's script is ugly as sin, but it gets the job done:
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/3169-PHP-Decode-MIME-e-mail-messages.html
We're receiving automated emails, which have a CSV attached. Using PHP, I'm grabbing mail via IMAP. I can grab the eMails and attachments no problem. However, the CSV's are attached as octet-streams.
How can I convert that to something I can actually work with? Currently when reading the contents, I'm just getting stuff that looks like this:
NzA1MTA1NTgxMzAsODgxDQo3MDUxMDU1ODEyMCw1NzkNCjcwNTEwNTU4MTEwLDQ3MQ0KNzA1MTA1==
Use base64_decode().
http://php.net/manual/en/function.base64-decode.php
Better yet, look at the encoding headers in the e-mail so that you know whether or not something is actually encoded the way you expect.
I am currently using Zend_Mail_Storage_Imap to read email messages using IMAP. I am able to read the email body (text and html) thanks to the documentation.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to save email attachments. I can't find anything that explains how to convert the raw content and save the attachments. How can I do this?
Try these:
http://macfoo.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/save-an-email-attachment-using-zend-mail/
http://www.electrictoolbox.com/function-extract-email-attachments-php-imap/
I found that reading emails using Zend_Mail can be a little buggy. Sometimes not all of the attachment files are recognized or in some cases imap can't even decode the body of the email .
We're using Sendgrid service to parse emails now, and it's working pretty well. They have a special api to decode emails. on the downside, it cost money, but I prefer better results.
I am trying to integrate IMAP email processing with another in house system that bases what it uses off of the subject line / email content.
We need to be able to change the text of the subject line before moving the email to a new folder. What/where would be a good place to start?
I've had a look around and it IS possible in a manual sense, via a thunderbird plugin or using outlook. I just can't seem to find a relevant example in PHP, or any other language for that matter. I also hear the idea is flakey at best as you need to modify the email content and upload it back to the imap server.
The outlook implementation seems to delete the original and save a new one to your IMAP folder on the server.
Side note: Yes I know it is a weird requirement, and although forwarding the email to ourselves then moving it is our fall back plan it is not much liked as it moves original headers useful for things like reply-all.
Any suggestions appreciated.
PS If I'm blind and there is something obvious I'm missing in the manual let me know.
Do you already have any code built to handle the email processing? IMAP subject line information is stored as a header so you would need to utilize the PHP functions of imap_headerinfo() and/or imap_fetchheader() depending on the functionality you're looking for to achieve this. You could have PHP check each message header and if it matches X format, remove the message, and create a new one with the appropriately modified header information.
I am looking for a solution that will enable me to connect to a mailbox, obtain an email, apply specific modifications to the email body (for example, change the content), and then forward the newly modified email to a new email address.
The trick is that such modification must not destroy the format and headers of the original email and I must not lose any attachments that were in the original email.
The sort of manipulation that will be performed will need to be done by an external process that knows the logic of my application.
The solution I am looking for can be an external software that can invoke some API for processing the content of the emails, or even API by itself that my code will invoke.
Our solution is currently based on PHP, but any other solution is also acceptable.
I started working with the Zend Mail library but I am running into problem having to understand the inner-workings of email formats. I wouldn't want to start messing around with the mime objects in the email format. I only want to alter the textual content of the message and keep the rest untouched.
http://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php - functions that let you manipulate email systems.
What mail server are you using? In qmail its easy to process any incomming email. You can put any script in any language to process the lines of the email.
If you have IMAP access to your server you can use the php IMAP lib. http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php
I wrote a library as part of a larger open source app that may help you a bit. Its an object orientated wrapper around the PHP imap functions and can be found at google code.
Unfortunately this doesn't do exactly what you want. What in the message are you trying to change? I may be possible to just grab a raw version and specifically search out what you want to change, ignoring the whole mimetype processing altogether, and then just send the whole message along again.
Resending the email is simple enough, and this (small tutorial)* on sending email with attachments can refresh you on the basics (although most of what is in there you can skip as the attachments and mimetypes will already be built).
* I can't post the link because my reputation isn't high enough for two links in a single post, so I'll add it in a comment.